REPLICATION FILES 
Does Land Quality Increase the Power of Traditional Leaders in Contemporary Africa?
Journal of Politics
Kate Baldwin: katharine.baldwin@yale.edu
Joan Ricart-Huguet: jricart-huguet@loyola.edu


1. Table of Contents

The replication package contains the following files:

analysis.do contains the analysis of our dataset and produces the tables and figures in the folder figures_tables

dataset.dta is our main dataset

coefplotwhite.grec is a recording Stata file that modifies the style of Stata graphs

SCCS_analysis.do contains the analysis concerning the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample dataset

SCCS_data.dta contains the relevant variables of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample dataset

Standard Cross-Cultural Codebook.htm contains the codebook for the SCCS dataset

The folder “figures_tables” contains the figures and tables produced by the two .do files

Note: all tables in the article are automatically exported except for Table A.2 (for which the relevant code is in lines 156-161 of analysis.do).

2. Base Software Dependencies

Stata/MP 16.1

64-bit Windows 10

3. Additional Dependencies 

Stata add-on package files used in the analysis are included in the add_ons folder and listed below. The .do files provided include lines of code that install these packages as needed. For example, ssc install revrs. 

package coefplot from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c
      'COEFPLOT': module to plot regression coefficients and other results 
package copydesc from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c
      'COPYDESC': module to copy description of variable
package revrs from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r
      'REVRS': module to reverse variable value order
